Even as truth
seems to bring friends together, to secure their fidelity, and to underwrite their contracts, Deleuze insists that friendship constitutes the
means with which thinking becomes a problem and becomes conscious
of itself as a problem. Inversely, then, perhaps the problem of philosophy can only be posed “‘between friends,’ as a secret [confidence] or a
confidence [confiance], or as a challenge when confronting an enemy,
and at the same time to reach that twilight when one distrusts even the
friend” (WIP: 2). Perhaps the problem of philosophy is posed between
friends because only in such a relationship, which is precisely a matter
of mutual trust (confiance), can we introduce distrust. Perhaps only
among friends can we risk the risk.
Gregg Flaxman, 2005
